Personal, collective, planetary? This blog offers you my summary of the original book, The Dark Night of the Soul, and some thoughts on how the Dark Night process can help us in these current confusing times. La noche oscura del alma was written around 1578 by the Spanish mystic and poet, Saint John of the … Read more
How inspiration can help our daily life and work There have been some interesting features in the media about the ways social media is shaping our lives. Let’s face it, their basic aim is to make us spend more: so the effect of all our screen time is to make us more self-centred, more anxious, … Read more
Having a spiritual practice may be helpful to us in many ways, but what does this actually mean, and how would we start? When I am asked about getting started, I suggest that people explore a couple of established, named spiritual paths which appeal to them: for example, Buddhism, Quakers or others. I also suggest … Read more
Listen to this story:When the soul left the body,it was stopped by Godat heaven’s gates:“You have returned just as you left!Life is a blessing of opportunity: Where are the bumps and scratchesleft by the journey?” Poem by Rumi, translation Neil Douglas-Klotz A few people are seeking a spiritual thread to help them find meaning and … Read more
I invite you to imagine that the bewildering, alarming events of recent weeks, especially coronavirus, have positive aspects which we need to discern: why not try? Like me, you may have attempted to make sense of all this by rational means, and failed. The gifts in bewilderment You may know Einstein’s saying, that a problem … Read more
Berry has an unusual, eloquent, and valuable view of how we humans got into the current crisis, and how to move out of it. This view is powerfully presented in the ‘Dream of the Earth’, one of his many books.
Thomas Berry described himself as a cosmologist and Earth Scholar – he was also a Catholic priest,